Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[JonRB]

Noisy eaters.

The colleague next to me is chomping down on a breakfast sandwich with all the chomping, slurping, lip smacking, snorting and squelching that one would usually associate with a starving dog attacking a bowl of Pedigree Chum.

[V8mate]

JonRB said:

Noisy eaters.

The colleague next to me is chomping down on a breakfast sandwich with all the chomping, slurping, lip smacking, snorting and squelching that one would usually associate with a starving dog attacking a bowl of Pedigree Chum.

Admit it. You're envious.

His gorgeous, fat and sauce laden stack of breakfast filth so totally pwns your two broken Weetabix with skimmed milk that you just hate him for enjoying revelling in his own gluttony.

[anonymous-user]

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

[bigkeeko]

OpulentBob said:

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

I don`t think you`re racist Bob. White people calling other white people racist for f**k all annoys me though.

I also can`t be arsed with white apologists for 7th century barbaric religious practices.

[james_tigerwoods]

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[thismonkeyhere]

OpulentBob said:

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

£7.50 to visit one of the most famous landmarks in the world? They saw you coming, eh?


Tightarse.

[JonRB]

OpulentBob said:

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

Convert that into the number of hours worked at your respective hourly rates and it's probably around the same cost.

[anonymous-user]

JonRB said:

OpulentBob said:

Foreigner tax.

Went to see the Taj Mahal at the weekend.

Cost for Sanjay Gupta? 20 rupees.
Cost for this white man? 750 rupees. Plus the associated 24/7 hassle from rickshaw drivers (who all conveniently had broken meters - that's 1000rupees sir), shop owners, tour guides, etc, and the groups of people wanting their photo taken with a white face. I should have started charging for it.

(Before anyone calls me racist, I'm nothing of the sort, but I'm blond haired and blue eyed and was getting as much attention as the fking great marble Wonder of the World.)

Convert that into the number of hours worked at your respective hourly rates and it's probably around the same cost.

Then take in to account the cost of living differences and it probably isn't. My hotel room costs more for one night than a month's rent for a colleague. If I wanted to rent a private apartment, as a foreigner, I would be subjected to massive taxes on it. Randomly called "luxury tax", where the "luxury" is a closing window and a roof. And the rate changes all the time. It's already been raised three times since I've been here.

It's not the GBP7.50 that irks me, it's the fact that were the boot on the other foot, and I tried to charge an Indian in the UK 40 times the going rate for something, I'd probably be closed down. "Bag of chips, Geoff? That's one fifty. Same for you, Vishwanath? Fifty quid."

And the hassle from the rickshaw drivers was plain annoying and unforgivable and I was only walking 100 yards to get a vada pav, I have no need for a rickshaw for that.

Anyway, this thread is annoyed beyond reason, so don't come around here with your reasonings of my annoyances.

[JonRB]

OpulentBob said:

Then take in to account the cost of living differences and it probably isn't. My hotel room costs more for one night than a month's rent for a colleague. If I wanted to rent a private apartment, as a foreigner, I would be subjected to massive taxes on it. Randomly called "luxury tax", where the "luxury" is a closing window and a roof. And the rate changes all the time. It's already been raised three times since I've been here.

It's not the GBP7.50 that irks me, it's the fact that were the boot on the other foot, and I tried to charge an Indian in the UK 40 times the going rate for something, I'd probably be closed down. "Bag of chips, Geoff? That's one fifty. Same for you, Vishwanath? Fifty quid."

And the hassle from the rickshaw drivers was plain annoying and unforgivable and I was only walking 100 yards to get a vada pav, I have no need for a rickshaw for that.

Anyway, this thread is annoyed beyond reason, so don't come around here with your reasonings of my annoyances.

Fair points and fair enough.

[james_tigerwoods]

Biting in to something and squeaking your teeth together (not unlike fingernails on a blackboard, but in your mouth) - I was enjoying a homecooked curry and rotis and can't now as my teeth hurt so I can't actually eat. Urgh

[RobinOakapple]

Posts that start "So you're saying that...". I wouldn't mind if what followed was a concise statement of my position, but usually it's distorted nonsense, and I find that annoying.

[anonymous-user]

RobinOakapple said:

Posts that start "So you're saying that...". I wouldn't mind if what followed was a concise statement of my position, but usually it's distorted nonsense, and I find that annoying.

Aah, the "Adrian Durham Fallacy", aka gobste from TalkSport.

Caller: "Wayne Rooney tends to lose his temper a bit but it's the passion of being a national team captain."

AD: "So you're saying that it's OK to beat people up and kill their kids just because you wear a football shirt?"

[227bhp]

james_tigerwoods said:

Biting in to something and squeaking your teeth together (not unlike fingernails on a blackboard, but in your mouth) - I was enjoying a homecooked curry and rotis and can't now as my teeth hurt so I can't actually eat. Urgh

Spinach, that makes your teeth creak.

[McAndy]

227bhp said:

Spinach, that makes your teeth creak.

And then feel furry afterwards. Weird.

[227bhp]

McAndy said:

227bhp said:

Spinach, that makes your teeth creak.

And then feel furry afterwards. Weird.

I think it's the iron (that furry feeling is rust building up )
Maybe.


Oh and while we're in the mouth area: When you are happily chomping away on your favourite food and you bite the inside of your cheek making an excruciating crunching noise, which then swells so you do it again later.
Mouth ulcers also.

They annoy me beyond reason.

[JonRB]

OpulentBob said:

RobinOakapple said:

Posts that start "So you're saying that...". I wouldn't mind if what followed was a concise statement of my position, but usually it's distorted nonsense, and I find that annoying.

Aah, the "Adrian Durham Fallacy", aka gobste from TalkSport.

Caller: "Wayne Rooney tends to lose his temper a bit but it's the passion of being a national team captain."

AD: "So you're saying that it's OK to beat people up and kill their kids just because you wear a football shirt?"

Sort of like this, you mean...

[james_tigerwoods]

227bhp said:

McAndy said:

227bhp said:

Spinach, that makes your teeth creak.

And then feel furry afterwards. Weird.

I think it's the iron (that furry feeling is rust building up )
Maybe.


Oh and while we're in the mouth area: When you are happily chomping away on your favourite food and you bite the inside of your cheek making an excruciating crunching noise, which then swells so you do it again later.
Mouth ulcers also.

They annoy me beyond reason.

It's always, always when you do an especially hard bite too.

Then it swells and you bite it more...

[RobinBanks]

JonRB said:

Convert that into the number of hours worked at your respective hourly rates and it's probably around the same cost.

Are you saying that OpulentBob has the same wage as the Taj Mahal?

[LiamB]

JonRB said:

Sort of like this, you mean...

In recent months at least, that pictures sums PH up perfectly!

[227bhp]

JonRB said:

Sort of like this, you mean...

GinettaGirl, where are you?

Edited by 227bhp on Tuesday 16th June 19:28